Sunday, 5 Aug Gnoli, Claudio. “Progress in synthetic classification: Towards a unique definition of concepts.” UDC Seminar: The Hague: 4-5 June 2007. Preprint of the paper published in Extensions & corrections to the UDC, 29, 2007. Available at dLIST. Tuesday, 7 Aug Miksa, Shawne. “You Need My Metadata: Demonstrating the Value of Library Cataloging (A [...]
Entries from August 2007
Some things read this week, 5 -11 August 2007
August 11th, 2007 · 12 Comments
Tags: Articles · Books · Cataloging · Classification · Information Retrieval · Librariana · Metadata · Ontologies · Relationships · Relevance · Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Mark at Off the Mark is Off
August 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Sitting here waiting on the bus home, I am now on my second 5-day “vacation”! The one person that I really wanted to go visit is unavailable at the moment. And, Laura, I’d love to come visit you but cannot consider driving to Meeteetse and back in 5 days. Same goes for Helen in Vermont. [...]
Tags: Film · Food and Drink · Friends · My Life · Travel · Weather
Aaaaargh!
August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Sorry. Just needed to get that off my chest. I have 2 jobs to apply to and I am losing my mind over résumés and cover letters. I. Hate. This. Stuff. Just in case I haven’t mentioned it. And, no. I’m not particularly looking for any sympathy. I full well know it is the price [...]
Tags: Job search · Librariana · My Life
Live. On the Air.
August 9th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Let’s hope steadily again… Most of you aren’t even aware of it, I imagine, except for those few who got “hung up” on in an IM conversation but my cable internet (Insight) has been flaking in and out (with much out) for the past week. I didn’t call until Tuesday and they couldn’t come out [...]
Tags: Technology · Web/Tech
Very Rare, indeed
August 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP) Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all menYou are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving. How Rare Is Your Personality? Blame or credit for this one goes to Jennifer. Hard to [...]
Some things read this week, 28 July – 4 August 2007
August 5th, 2007 · Comments Off
Sorry this is so slim on content, but my cable internet has been popping in and out constantly for the last several days. I don’t dare try to write anything of substance for fear of losing it. Saturday, 28 Jul Brookes, Bertram C. “The Foundations of Information Science. Part I. Philosophical aspects.” Journal of Information [...]
Tags: Articles · Information Retrieval · Librariana · Web/Tech
as ranger said, “duh huh, seriously”
August 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments
Found at in the hoosegow back in early April What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary [...]
